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Track experts consider MacMitchell the most promising runner ever developed in the U.S. Having an extraordinarily low pulse of 38 (72 is normal), relentless perseverance, perfect mental attitude and Boy-Scout living habits, he has run within two seconds of every world's record for half a dozen distances, from 440 yards to 1,500 meters. At a mile, he has already tied Glenn Cunningham's recognized indoor world's record...
...Scout. At Camp Robinson, Ark., Private Henry Placke was discovered to have joined a local Boy Scout troop, earned ten merit badges, qualified as an Eagle Scout. The Army discharged under-age Private Placke...
...Yarnell, U.S.N. (retired). Arguing his case in Collier's last week, Admiral Yarnell told a horrendous tale of manslaughter committed by the R.A.F. and the Italian Air Force (both independent) through ignorance of military and naval matters. Excerpts: > "Forty-eight hours before the Germans actually invaded Norway, R.A.F. scout planes saw transport ships churning through the North Sea. Only mildly interested in the phenomenon, they reported it through routine channels. . . . Had the pilots been wise in naval matters, wise enough to understand what they saw, England would have known two days earlier of the German movement...
...interested boozier of the Harvard football team, I would suggest you send a scout to the annual Dream game which will be played in Scranton, Penn., is December between the county and city all stars which is composed of the cream of the Antracite Valley where some of the toughest football is played in the hard coal region, this year are some of the greatest prospects that I ever saw so I would advise you to look 'em over...
Explaining why Harvard would not be likely to scout the coal mines next year, a country writer on the Pinchurst (N.C.) Outlook says that "Harvard is not a football college." Quoting an old tablet, he adds that it was founded so "or children shall not grow up in ignorance...